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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Heede (Amtsbezirk Hemdingen), Schleswig-Holstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld note printed in dark brown and blue on cream paper, with a geometric Art Deco border composed of zigzag and dotted bands enclosing six-pointed star motifs at the corners. The large denomination numeral '25' occupies the centre field, flanked left and right by the abbreviation 'PF.' and arrow-shaped ornamental devices. The issuing authority legend appears at the top in bold letterpress, with the expiry clause and dual manuscript signatures of the Amtsausschuss and Amtsvorsteher at the foot, alongside a stamped serial number in red. The printer's imprint 'Konrad Hanf, Hamburg 8.' is set in small type at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE HEEDE (AMTSBEZIRK HEMDINGEN) PF. 25 PF. DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM DER AMTSAUSSCHUSS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 DER AMTSVORSTEHER J.A. Konrad Hanf, Hamburg 8. |
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Heede is a small parish in the Pinneberg district, and like hundreds of similarly tiny Schleswig-Holstein municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the inflationary period not primarily out of necessity but because the collector trade had made small-denomination emergency notes a commercial proposition. Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg printer who handled a number of these municipal commissions in the early 1920s, supplying notes that were often ordered in excess of any genuine circulation requirement.
The parenthetical clarification "Amtsbezirk Hemdingen" distinguishes this from other Heede issuances — the administrative grouping matters for attribution, as multiple communities shared names across northern Germany.